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Richard DeWitt Miller (January 22, 1910 – June 3, 1958) was an SF Encyclopedia
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Richard DeWitt Miller (January 22, 1910 – June 3, 1958) was an American writer
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of science fiction
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and Forteana
Charles Hoy Fort (August 6, 1874 – May 3, 1932) was an American writer and researcher who specialized in anomalous phenomena. The terms "Fortean" and "Forteana" are sometimes used to characterize various such phenomena. Fort's books sold w ...
./ref> His first science-fiction publication was "The Shapes" which appeared in
Astounding Science Fiction
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in 1936. His non-fiction books include ''You Do Take It With You'' (1936) (a book about Fortean phenomena) as well as ''The Mastery of the Master'' (1944), ''Impossible - Yet It Happened'' (also known as ''Forgotten Mysteries: True Stories of the Supernatural'', 1947), ''Stranger Than Life'' (1955), ''You Do Take It with You: An Adventure into the Vaster Reality'' (1955), and ''Reincarnation: The Whole Startling Story'' (1956). Miller wrote one science-fiction novelette published in March 1938 by ''Astounding Science Fiction'' under the title "The Master Shall Not Die" with no collaborator; it was not issued in book form until 1956, when Ace Books
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brought it out in its dos-à-dos
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format Ace Doubles
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under the title ''The Man Who Lived Forever'', with co-author Anna Hunger. The book was bound back-to-back with Jerry Sohl
Gerald Allan Sohl Sr. (December 2, 1913 – November 4, 2002) was an American television scriptwriter and science fiction author who wrote for ''The Twilight Zone'' (as a ghostwriter for Charles Beaumont), '' Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', '' The Out ...
's ''The Mars Monopoly''. Miller also authored a fantasy work entitled ''The Loose Board in the Floor'' (1951).
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